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Glitterbug - Reissue

    Glitterbug is the third major studio album by British indie rock band The Wombats. The album was produced by Mark Crew (Bastille, Lovejoy, Rag'n'Bone Man) alongside the band themselves and was released in 2015. The first single from the album was "Your Body Is A Weapon", followed by "Greek Tragedy", "Give Me A Try", "Be Your Shadow" and "Emoticons". The album entered the UK charts at #5 and reached #2 in Australia, as well as charting at #91 in the US, becoming the band's first appearance in the Billboard 200.

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    1. Emoticons
    2. Give Me A Try
    3. Greek Tragedy
    4. Be Your Shadow
    5. Headspace

    Side B
    1. This Is Not A Party
    2. Isabel
    3. Your Body Is A Weapon
    4. The English Summer
    5. Pink Lemonade
    6. Curveballs

    The Wombats

    Is This What It Fells Like To Feel Like This

      Fresh from topping the charts with their first UK number one album, Fix Yourself, Not The World and playing their biggest ever global headline tour, indie legends The Wombats continue their remarkable ascent with their new EP Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?

      TRACK LISTING

      SIDE A
      1. I Think My Mind Has Made Its Mind Up
      2. Dressed To Kill
      3. Demon

      SIDE B
      1. Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?
      2. Same Old Damage
      3. Good Idea At The Time

      The Wombats

      Fix Yourself, Not The World

        The Wombats kick off the most exciting phase of their constantly evolving success story with the announcement of their fifth studio album Fix Yourself, Not The World. Recording remotely over the past year from their respective homes, the band have been working hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis in London, they discussed each day’s plan via Zoom, then recorded separately, sending individual files to producers Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The War on Drugs, Yungblud) to mix into the finished tracks.

        “It was pure madness, to be honest,” explains Murph. 

        “We’re so excited for people to hear this new album! We’ve explored new genres and pushed ourselves further than ever musically. It will always stand out for us in our memories from our other albums as we recorded it across three cities during lockdown, and we weren’t all in the same room at the same time!” says Dan Haggis. 


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Flip Me Upside Down
        2. This Car Drives All By Itself
        3. If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You
        4. Ready For The High
        5. Method To The Madness
        6. People Don’t Change People, Time Does
        7. Everything I Love Is Going To Die
        8. Work Is Easy, Life Is Hard
        9. Wildfire
        10. Don’t Poke The Bear
        11. Worry
        12. Fix Yourself, Then The World (Reach Beyond Your Fingers)

        The Wombats

        The Wombats Proudly Present... This Modern Glitch (10th Anniversary Edition)

          Limited edition, expanded 10th anniversary pressing which contains the original album pressed on ‘sky blue’ coloured vinyl. The release also includes a bonus 12” featuring all 12 B-sides from the Jump Into The Fog, Anti-D, Techno Fan (which world renowned DJ, Diplo is a big fan of) and Our Perfect Disease singles pressed on ‘golden sand’ coloured vinyl. Includes two art prints featuring the album cover plus the alternative cover shot that featured on the original deluxe boxset at the time.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease [Sound Recording]
          2. The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) [Sound Recording]
          3. The Wombats - Jump Into The Fog [Sound Recording]
          4. The Wombats - Anti-D [Sound Recording]
          5. The Wombats - Last Night I Dreamt... [Sound Recording]
          6. The Wombats - Techno Fan [Sound Recording]
          7. The Wombats - 1996 [Sound Recording]
          8. The Wombats - Walking Disasters [Sound Recording]
          9. The Wombats - Girls / Fast Cars [Sound Recording]
          10. The Wombats - Schumacher The Champagne [Sound Recording]
          11. The Wombats - Addicted To The Cure [Sound Recording]
          12. The Wombats - Valentine [Sound Recording]
          13. The Wombats - How I Miss Sally Bray [Sound Recording]
          14. The Wombats - I'm A Robot Like You [Sound Recording]
          15. The Wombats - Wonderful Distraction [Sound Recording]
          16. The Wombats - Dear Hamburg [Sound Recording]
          17. The Wombats - Shock Goodbyes And P45's [Sound Recording]
          18. The Wombats - Avalanche [Sound Recording]
          19. The Wombats - Trampolining [Sound Recording]
          20. The Wombats - IOU's [Sound Recording]
          21. The Wombats - Guillotine [Sound Recording]
          22. The Wombats - Reynold's Park [Sound Recording]

          The Wombats

          Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

            The Wombats fourth studio album, ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ is released on their own independent label via Kobalt Music Recordings, and features the brand new single ‘Lemon To A Knife Fight’. ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ sees The Wombats continuing to assert themselves as one of the biggest and best guitar pop sensations of our time. 2015’s ‘Glitterbug’ LP saw a UK Top 5 Album, headline show at Alexandra Palace, and has currently received over 200 million digital streams.

            Written from three corners of the globe - drummer Dan Haggis in London, bassist Tord Verland Knudsen nursing his new family in Oslo and frontman Murph in Los Angeles - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life was created over long distance writing sessions, supplemented by intense two-week in-person sessions in Oslo. With the addition of producers Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag’n’Bone Man) and Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice), the album finds The Wombats pushing the boundaries of alt-pop innovation with a lush, ultramodern indie soundscape wrapped in Blade Runner synths, future grooves, celestial solos and space age melodies.

            The Wombats follow their Top 5 album ‘This Modern Glitch’ with the release of their third full-length ‘Glitterbug’ via 14th Floor Records / Warner Bros. Records. Already named as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record, the album’s lead single ‘Greek Tragedy’ was accompanied by a darkly compelling video in which one young fan takes her obsession with the band to disturbing extremes. Produced by Mark Crew (Bastille) and The Wombats – frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis – the album’s themes were inspired by core songwriter Murph’s experiences in Los Angeles. Drawn to the city’s mix of “opulence and anxiety”, his songwriting for the album focused upon the idea of writing about a tumultuous relationship with a fictional woman from Los Angeles.

            “That became the main inspiration for most of the songs, this false world that I’d created for myself,” he explains. “As time progressed, I’d go to L.A. more and more, and the idea kept on building. The album’s about the envy and the struggle and the pretence and the worry and the fear that L.A. – and every major city in the world – encompasses.”

            Approximately halfway through the writing process, events conspired to curve full-circle from fiction into fact when Murph started dating a seemingly unattainable woman from the city. And so imaginary stories evolved into real life concerns: the fading embers of his relationship back in London and the challenges of maintaining a long distance relationship. Instrumentally, most of the songs took one of two directions: back in Liverpool, bassist Tord and drummer Dan’s rush of creativity would result in them delivering backing tracks as a foundation for Murph to then build upon in L.A. or London; alternatively Murph would develop the essence of a song on guitar or piano for the band to collectively flesh out. Despite the initial geographic displacement of the trio, subsequent sessions at Mark Crew’s London studio demonstrated that The Wombats’ inter-band dynamics are as strong as ever before.

            ‘Greek Tragedy’ floats an East Asian-infused synth riff over booming, distorted drum beats, while another immediate stand-out, the uplifting ‘Give Me A Try’ (inspired by Murph’s blossoming new relationship) represents the band’s most positive lyric to date. Other highlights include the elastic bass and pulsating disco rhythm that permeates throughout ‘Be Your Shadow’; the almost unrecognisably different ‘Emoticons’; and ‘This is Not A Party’ which addresses Murph’s swing from celebratory hedonism to a borderline existential crisis over the course of some “fairly sizeable” nights out in the summer of 2013.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Emoticons
            2. Give Me A Try
            3. Greek Tragedy
            4. Be Your Shadow
            5. Headspace
            6. This Is Not A Party
            7. Isabel
            8. Your Body Is A Weapon
            9. The English Summer
            10. Pink Lemonade
            11. Curveballs

            The Wombats

            Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)

              Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age Lostprophets) "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)" adds an array of new sounds (including sweeping synths and an insistent bassline) to the band’s famously immediate songwriting.


              TRACK LISTING

              Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)
              Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) (Grum Remix)


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